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PNSWSH
Service Change Notice 11-06
National Weather Service Headquarters
1243
PM EST Wed Feb 2 2011
TO: Subscribers:
- Family of Services
- NOAA Weather Wire Service
- Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
- NOAAPORT
- Other NWS partners and NWS employees
FROM: Eli Jacks
Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch
SUBJECT: Implementation of Improved Fire
and Public Weather
Coverage for Mississippi and Southeast Louisiana
Effective May 31, 2011
Effective Tuesday, May 31, 2011, at 100 pm Central
Daylight Time
(CDT), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC),
the NWS Weather
Forecast Office (WFO) in New Orleans/Baton Rouge
Louisiana (LIX)
will reconfigure its current fire and public weather
forecast
zones for Tangipahoa (LAZ038) Parish in southeast
Louisiana.
This reconfiguration will provide better forecast
services by
splitting Tangipahoa Parish into two separate fire
and public
weather forecast zones for climatological, geographical
and
meteorological effects.
The fire and public weather forecast zones
for Tangipahoa Parish
will be split in half to form Northern Tangipahoa
(LAZ071) and
Southern Tangipahoa (LAZ072). This split will
account for
tropical and coastal issues that do not impact Northern Tangipahoa Parish and winter weather issues that to not affect
Southern Tangipahoa Parish.
The fire and public zone changes require to take appropriate
action to receive the new zone products using the Universal
Generic Code (UGC) zone code format (Z)
listed in Table 1.
TABLE 1. New Fire and Public Zone Configuration
Identifiers
NEW FIRE/PUBLIC UGC (Z) EXISTING FIRE/PUBLIC UGC (Z)
ZONE
NAME ZONE Name
--------------- ------ -------------------- ------
More detail regarding this change (including greater detail regarding
why these fire and public zone changes are being made), graphical
depictions of the current and new fire and public zones, and a table
of WFO LIX affected products are available online at:
www.srh.weather.gov/LIX/?n=tangipahoa_breakup
Updated fire and public weather forecast zone shapefiles are available
online at:
www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
and www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
For more information, please contact:
Ken Graham Melinda Bailey
Meteorologist-in-Charge Public/Marine Meteorologist
National Weather Service National Weather Service
New Orleans/Baton Rouge Southern Region Headquarters
Slidell LA 70460 Fort Worth TX 76102
504-522-7330/985-649-0357 817-978-1100 X107
ken.graham@noaa.gov melinda.bailey@noaa.gov
National Service Change Notices are online
at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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